Yesterday, I covered five of my favorite multimedia players. Today I’ll cover ten Windows tools that you can use to defragment your hard disk. You need just one. So, take your pick! Contig Contig is a single-file defragmenter that attempts to make files contiguous on disk. Its perfect for quickly optimizing files that are continuously becoming fragmented, or that you want to ensure are in as few fragments as possible. Power Defragmenter The main problem with contig is that it is command line and requires you to have some knowledge of using the command prompt. This is where Power Defragmenter…

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If there is one disease that I have, and it is my need for using different software for different purposes. This is especially true in the case of multimedia, i.e. audio and video players. Currently I have several players installed or their portable versions stored on my laptop. These are my favorite five. Media Player Classic Media Player Classic was designed to look just like Windows Media Player 6.4, but with many additional new features. It has a built in DVD player with real-time zoom, support for AVI subtitles, QuickTime and RealVideo support and built-in MPEG2/SVCD/DVD codec. VLC Media Player…

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If you have missed reading any of our Techtites Daily articles this week, below is a list of what we covered. September 22 – VLC media player (Multimedia Monday) September 23 – DAMN NFO Viewer vs. ViewNFO (Tool Tuesday) September 24 – Automattic acquires IntenseDebate (WordPress Wednesday) September 25 – Creating Custom Labels in Microsoft Word 2007 (Tutorial Thursday) September 26 – Chindogu Clock for Procrastinators (Fun Friday) September 27 – Windows Live Writer Beta (Software Saturday) Have you liked the articles so far? What would you like to see in the future? Do write in and let us know….

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Last week Microsoft released Windows Live Writer Beta. The release includes added support for video. You can now insert videos from Soapbox and YouTube, as well as upload to them. There is a new skin and several more feature enhancements for images, better features to author blogs. You can spell check in several more languages. For me, English is the only language, so not much benefit for me there! One of the best features I like is the ability to add categories directly to my WordPress blog with search and type-down filtering. Give it a shot, if you haven’t already….

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This one is for all you persons who never begin a job on time. Yes, we are all guilty of the same. One method is to set your clock faster by a few minutes. However, after sometime you realize that your clock is actually fast and mentally calculate the same and leave that many minutes later! In short, there goes the reliability. And, that is where the Procrastinator’s Clock. It’s guaranteed to be up to 15 minutes fast. It’s guaranteed to be up to 15 minutes fast. However, it also speeds up and slows down in an unpredictable manner so…

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Last year, as part of our admissions team duties, we were required to send out prospectus to students all over India. These ranged from a minimum of fifty envelopes to over 150 at a time. During a promotion campaign we printed around 90,000 labels! Given the sheer number of labels to be printed, we decided to automate the same using label merge. In this tutorial, I’ll run you through creating a custom label, and then in a future tutorial teach you how to use it. Microsoft Word comes inbuilt with tonnes of labels ready for you to use. However, as…

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In an announcement on their blog, Intense Debate stated that they have been acquired by Automattic. IntenseDebate is a comment system that enhances and encourages discussion on your blog or website. This is done via comment threading, replying via email and an ability to import and export comments. What’s in store for us users? Automattic plans on keeping IntenseDebate an independent entity as was in the case of Gravatar. Which means that even non-WordPress users have an opportunity of using the service. Currently IntenseDebate has been converted to a private beta by invitation only. I’ve applied. Should be interesting to…

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Logged into Orkut today and found this beautiful message on my homepage. Seems like Google is going all out in making Chrome a maximum used browser. We’ve really seen the way Google promotes its products, especially on the homepage itself. I’m still waiting for Chrome to support addons.

.nfo (also written .NFO or NFO, a contraction of “info”, or “information”) is a commonly used three-letter filename extension of ASCII or extended ASCII text files that accompany other files and contain information about them. Such NFO files can be viewed with text editors or dedicated NFO viewers. Two such viewers are DAMN NFO Viewer and ViewNFO. I’ve been using DAMN NFO viewer for several years now. The site has gone dead. The software is now hosted by SoftPedia Came across ViewNFO which performs the exact same function. The interface is a bit more classy with several skins. However, it…

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Apple’s Ads where an attempt to portray to users that Mac is the cool operating system used by cool people, while Windows is for … Now, the new I’m a PC advertisements are online. The ads don’t talk about the operating system or what Microsoft is about. However, they do portray something real. As one person says, “I’m a PC and I am a Human Being”. I’ve been using Windows all my life now and I can very well identify with several of the people. Anyway, below are the three ads: URL: Watch Ad 1 on YouTube.com URL: Watch Ad…

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